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Turkish nationalist leader Akşener calls it quits after election defeat

Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, has decided not to seek re-election to party leadership following blame for the party’s...

Kurdish mayors take office pledging to undo legacy of trustees

Mayors who were elected from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in the local polls on March 31 are taking office...

Kurdish politician officially assumes office in eastern Turkey after days of unrest

Abdullah Zeydan, a pro-Kurdish party candidate who won a landslide victory in Sunday’s local election in eastern Van province but was initially denied the...

Turkey’s top judicial body launches inquiry into court that reinstated Kurdish mayor’s political rights

One day after Turkey’s election authority decided to reinstall a Kurdish politician who had been initially denied the mandate to serve as mayor of...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party challenges overturning of candidate’s election victory

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it was contesting a ruling that annulled the election of its mayoral candidate in the eastern province of Van...

Kurdish mayor denied mandate despite winning landslide victory in eastern Turkey

A Kurdish politician who won the local election in Turkey’s eastern province of Van with a landslide victory on Sunday has been denied the...

We squandered chance to topple Erdoğan in May: CHP leader

The leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) openly admitted that mistakes made by the country’s opposition coalition could have cost them...

Erdoğan still has hand to play after election bruising

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's opponents may have celebrated Sunday's local election hammering of the Turkish president as if they'd unseated him, but the "reis," or...

Opposition defeat of Erdoğan redraws Turkey’s political map

Turkish opposition candidates and voters on Monday celebrated inflicting a stinging defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's party in municipal elections. "You know how it...

Nationalist parties bled voters in local polls after toned-down rhetoric

Support for both Turkey’s ruling-party ally and nationalist opposition parties saw a significant decline in Sunday’s local elections following a campaign marked by less...

DEM Party victorious in much of Turkey’s SE despite claims of voter fraud

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) emerged victorious in Turkey’s local elections on Sunday, winning a dozen municipalities in Turkey’s predominantly...

Erdoğan’s AKP suffers historic defeat in Turkey’s polls, CHP leading party after decades

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has suffered its worst election defeat since coming to power two decades ago,...

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